EIFF

Country: Ireland

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Retrospective Screening

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Ken Loach’s 2006 Palme D’Or winning film is a heartfelt and stirring epic exploring the rift that emerges between two brothers who find themselves fighting against one another in the conflict over Irish independence in the early 1920s. Presented from...

Retrospective Screening
Ken Loach
2006
2hr 13 mins
15+

Christy

UK Premiere

Christy

17-year-old Christy has been kicked out of his latest foster home and is stuck staying with his hotheaded half-brother Shane. Met with many estranged family members, the past begins to catch up with him. The neighbourhood of Knocknaheeny provides many...

UK Premiere
Brendan Canty
2025
1hr 35 mins
15+

Animation Shorts

UK Premiere, World Premiere

Animation Shorts

Explore the infinite possibilities of animation with this global tour of a medium being used to tell a stunning variety of inventive, expressive, entirely unique tales.This collection of shorts includes everything from a daring lunar adventure, to a family-friendly parable...

UK Premiere, World Premiere
Various
2023, 2024, 2025
1hr 30 mins
15+

Sanatorium

UK Premiere

Sanatorium

The clientele of a rundown Soviet-era health resort search for love, health and happiness in war-torn Ukraine where air raid sirens and plumes of smoke from nearby Russian bombing raids disturb their much sought-after peace. ‘The country isn’t the same...

UK Premiere
Gar O’Rourke
2025
1hr 35 mins

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Matthew McManus & Kevin McManus
2025
2hr 5 mins

Decision at Sundown (1956)

Screening as part of Budd Boetticher: The Ranown Cycle. EIFF presents six compact and beautiful films directed by Budd Boetticher, which present the apotheosis...

Budd Boetticher
1956
1hr 20 mins

Comanche Station (1960)

Screening as part of Budd Boetticher: The Ranown Cycle. EIFF presents six compact and beautiful films directed by Budd Boetticher, which present the apotheosis...

Budd Boetticher
1hr 15min mins